Sequelcast 2 and Friends

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle. After being transported to Los Angeles, the titular moose and squirrel travel across country to stop a rogue TV station from hypnotizing the populace into a stupor. Starring Jason Alexander, Robert De Niro, Janeane Garofalo, and Rene Russo. The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle uses the tired...

Thrasher does an audio commentary for the 1970 Rankin/Bass classic Santas Claus Is Comin' To Town starring Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Joan Gardner, and Paul Frees.  One of a long-running annual series of stop-motion animated Christmas specials, Santa Claus Is Comin' To Town is well worth adding to your home video library. Other titular Santa Claus Rankin/Bass specials include 1974's The Yea...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the live-action film Dudley Do-Right. Snidely Whiplash starts a town with a nefarious purpose after a gold rush boom. Starring Brendan Fraser, Eric Idle, Alfred Molina, and Sarah Jessica Parker.  From the writer and director of Police Academy, Dudley Do-Right is a live-action adaptation of the Jay Ward cartoon aimed at a very young...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, Alex Miller, and special guest Bill Oakley (Professional Food Enthusiast and Writer for The Simpsons) discuss their favorite food moments from movies, TV, and comics.  Whether it's Dagwood eating his signature sandwich, Mel Gibson whipping up a plate of food in Signs, or the hot piping donuts coming out of a machine, they cover a wide gamut including some...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Boris and Natasha: The Movie. Two Pottsylvanian spies infiltrate America whilst followed by mysterious assassins.  The first live-action film based off the 1960s cartoon The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Boris and the Natasha: The Movie premiered on the premium Showtime channel. You have some SCTV favorites (Da...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Friends at Hogwarts discover more nasty secrets within the castle walls.  Based on the second book in the long running Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets feels too much like a retread of the original. There's a suspicious professor, fantasy beasties, and precocious kids. Perhaps...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the so-called death of physical media.  Having gotten hooked on home video since the VHS days, our hosts take viewers on a history of the format while debating what we are losing as so many more titles become only available on streaming services. Audio commentaries, documentaries, and blooper reels are rarely seen on streaming s...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne. Now a king, Graham requests companionship and follows his Magic Mirror's visions of a kidnapped Princess to gain a bride.  The second proper King's Quest game if we don't count Hi-Res Adventure # 2: The Wizard and the Princess, King's Quest 2: Romancing the Throne has more of a plot of sorts...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love. Booger looks to get hitched while Lewis and Betty have a dork bun in the oven. Starring Curtis Armstrong, Robert Carradine, and Julia Montgomery. The final Revenge of the Nerds film (for now), Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love is a backdoor pilot to a Booger series. In many ways, this feels l...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation. Starring Curtis Armstrong, Robert Carradine, and Julia Montgomery.  The first of two TV movies in the Nerds series (according to Curtis Armstrong's memoir, these also served as backdoor pilots for Revenge of the Nerds TV shows that never got off the ground), Revenge of the Nerds III: T...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Jersey Jason discuss discuss Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (outside the US, this is known as Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone). Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Alan Rickman, and Emma Watson.  Having become a best-selling series of books, it was no surprise when the Harry Potter series hit the silver screen. Directed by Chris Columbus (Home...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Oz the Great and Powerful. A charlatan carnival barker gets transported to Oz where he has 99 problems and a witch is one. Starring James Franco, Mila Kunis, and Rachel Weisz. Sam Raimi's first foray into the high fantasy genre since Army of Darkness, Oz the Great and Powerful carries on the dark humor and wit of the books into its own story. James F...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Return to Oz. A girl gets committed to an insane asylum and runs away to her favorite magical land. A clever adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, Return to Oz hews closer to the books than its more popular musical predecessor did. In some ways, this comes off as a horror film with how frightening the creatures look. Over the years,...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss The Wizard of Oz. A girl murders two witches. One of the classic movie musicals of all time, The Wizard of Oz represents the film industry shifting from black and white to color and planting a firm foot on the ground that sound in movies is the inevitable future. A lighter take on Oz than the quirky source material from author L. Frank Baum, the Wiza...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the rare pilot for Revenge of the Nerds from 1991. Nerds join a fraternity to score with chicks with network TV level hijinks.  Taking the standard trope of TV shows spun off movies, this pilot episode retells its feature film inspiration as a single TV episode. Well, actually it's maybe the first half of the original movie. Things...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise. The Tri-Lamb boys are at it again as they head to Florida.  A sequel so mediocre it took a lot of the cast convincing to even appear in it, Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise is a sanded off take on the first film with the requisite beach hijinks ensuing. Ogre (Donald Gibb) gets s...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Revenge of the Nerds. Two nerd friends meet more nerds when they enroll in college.  Cashing in on the sex comedy craze birthed by Animal House and Porky's, Revenge of the Nerds looks at the downtrodden geeks as its subject of satire. Many of the pranks in Revenge of the Nerds would be considered sex crimes today. Its entire cast i...

Host Mat Bradley-Tschirgi hosts 2 live episodes of Sequelcast 2 and Friends at WasabiCon PDX 2022 in Portland, Oregon. First up is a live show on Anime in the 1990s followed by Video Games That Should Be Anime.  The crowd was boisterous. The prizes were random vintage cards of 80s and 90s entertainment like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Return to Oz, American Gladiators, and more. Lots of g...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jaws: The Revenge. Michael Caine fights the shark. A real dud, Jaws: The Revenge brings back Lorraine Gary as Ellen Brody who just can't seem to shake dangerous shark action. Mario Van Peebles makes for amusing comedic relief as Jake, but everything here has been done before and better in earlier Jaws films. Perhaps we'll get a notable Jaws sequel so...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jaws 3-D. There's a theme park full of hungry sharks and stupid humans. Perhaps the most novel in the Jaws series, Jaws 3-D spoofs Sea World into a good time. This series hardly qualifies as oceanic horror anymore, but this inspired concept gives it a bit of a boost. The third Jaws movie was meant to be a spoof scribed by John Hughes titles JAWS 3 PE...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss Quatermass 2. A factory near a small village is hiding a terrible secret.  Adapted from a 1955 BBC miniseries, Quatermass II has a larger scope as we see how a small town's community sways their opinions on the effects of the big factory in town employing most of the locals. Brian Donlevy returns once again as Professor Quatermass...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and Alex Miller discuss the original feature film of The Quatermass Xperiment. A rocket launch goes awry. Adapted from a 1953 BBC miniseries, this black and white creature feature has a great amount of paranoia and terror despite its limited budget. Brian Donlevy is a bit flat as the titular character. Sequelcast 2 and Friends is part of the HyperX Podcast Net...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jaws 2. Haunted by his memories of a deadly shark, Police Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) encounters yet another deadly shark. Released in an age when sequels were less calculated, Jaws 2 takes some elements from the original Peter Benchley novel (the mayor's political quagmires) as an inspiration along with a kind of Jaws: The Next Generation with...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi and Thrasher discuss Jaws. A hungry shark gets fed by swimmers in the beach. Based on the hit novel by Peter Benchley, Jaws was Steven Spielberg's breakout hit as a film director. Working off a screenplay by Peter Benchley and Carl Gottlieb, Jaws is crafted more as a straight thriller than the somewhat lurid soap opera mechanics of the original novel. A dodgy mechanical...

Hosts Mat Bradley-Tschirgi, Thrasher, and BJ discuss Star Wars spin-offs they've enjoyed over the years including the books, TV shows, video games, and comics. Whether it's the infamous hard reboot of Star Wars Galaxies (the turgid Star Wars MMO many would like to forget) or the early seasons of Clone Wars, there's a lot of fun Star Wars spinoffs to discuss in this vintage Sequelcast episode. Sequ...